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#2150: ShinyDoofy's SMS Lucky Dime Caper, The in 20:09.88

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This is a TAS of The Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck, a colorful SMS game with quite some catchy tunes.

It starts out with "Unca Scrooge" having a present for Donald's nephews: a single dime each! As it turns out, those are lucky dimes that Scrooge himself once used to start his fortune. Magica De Spell watches them from outside and later on steals the dimes and kidnaps the nephews to become even richer than Scrooge. The good guy that he is, Donald goes after the boys to rescue them.

Game objectives

Emulator used: Dega 1.15
Aims for fastest time
Genre: Platformer

Comments

There are two major version of this game, one on the SMS (this one) and one on the GG. The games differ a lot, as the GG version has slightly different graphics in the beginning and has powerups spread across the levels, which one would have to kill enemies for on the SMS. Also, the levels themselves differ in a way that they basically only share a common theme each (the woods, Egypt, Hawaii and so on), but have only vaguely similar layouts. Due to those difference and the fact that there appears to be only a European version of this game on SMS, I chose to use the (E) ROM and not the (U) ROM on GG. If requested/needed for judging, I will further elaborate the differences, though.

Thanks to various people (in no particular order):

alden
theenglishman
duksandfish
Wockes

NesVideoAgent: Hi! I am a robot. I took a few screenshots of this movie and placed them here. Here goes! Feel free to clean up the list.

mmbossman: Somewhat of a substandard game, without too much action, but it was entertaining enough for me to just barely give it a pass. You also seem to have given some good answers to the technical level of the run in the discussion. Accepting.

ShinyDoofy: Processing, of course.

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Posted: 12/6/2008 10:02 PM

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Posted: 12/6/2008 10:54 PM

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alden

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Woo! Two SMS runs in the workbench!

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Posted: 12/7/2008 12:27 AM

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Dromiceius

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Hrm. I watched a few minutes and intuited that the precision was lax, so I banged on it a little and- if I'm not mistaken- saved a couple frames by damage-boosting over the springboard in the first level. I'll have to watch the rest later.

Posted: 12/7/2008 2:57 AM

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Not encoded yet?

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Posted: 12/7/2008 1:58 PM

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ShinyDoofy

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Dromiceius wrote:

so I banged on it a little and- if I'm not mistaken- saved a couple frames by damage-boosting over the springboard in the first level.

Feel free to give details. This is already my second version of this game and as I didn't receive any real comments on improvements (like "on frame xx, you jump too early/too high/whatever"), I has hoping to get some real answers here. I know that this is not the right place to post WIPs, yet maybe this run was already optimal enough to be published (which is for the judges to decide, not me).

DarkKobold wrote:

Not encoded yet?

http://files.filefront.com/luckydimecaper+tas+shinydymkv/;12580800;/fileinfo.html

Posted: 12/7/2008 7:21 PM

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Dromiceius

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Feel free to give details. This is already my second version of this game and as I didn't receive any real comments on improvements (like "on frame xx, you jump too early/too high/whatever"), I has hoping to get some real answers here. I know that this is not the right place to post WIPs, yet maybe this run was already optimal enough to be published (which is for the judges to decide, not me).

Oh, sure. Jump to the right side of the trampoline thingy, and let the bee hit you so that you fly onto the platform. I hadn't considered earlier, but if there are penalties for getting hit (like at the end of the level) or a frame-rule, they would probably negate the damage boost.

Posted: 12/7/2008 7:30 PM

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ShinyDoofy

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Unfortunately, getting hit in the SMS version (without having picked up a powerup) makes you lose the hammer and thus the boss fight with the bear would take considerably longer as one would have to jump on his head instead of hitting him with the hammer. About the frame rule: Every time a boss dies, Donald walks into the middle of the screen to continue to his nephew or the dime that one of the birds held captive. When having to jump on the bear's head for the last time, I think it would take longer to reach the (horizontal) middle of the screen to continue. /edit: nevertheless, thanks for sure observation(s)! :)

Posted: 12/11/2008 9:46 PM

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i give this tas 6/5 well i ddint like the tear drops of fire scene the mecanism happens again on the piramid, when big blocks fall from the sky it tooks damage that could be avoided, and donalds walks give some steps back in some stages. well this tas can be improved

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Posted: 12/12/2008 3:07 PM

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Wockes

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Thanks for the credit, but I didn't actually do anything :P As for the run, I can't realy say anything about the technical stuff (only made 1 TAS movie ever) but I give it a 7 in entertainment.

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Posted: 12/12/2008 4:08 PM

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ShinyDoofy

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wicked wrote:

i give this tas 6/5 well i ddint like the tear drops of fire scene the mecanism happens again on the piramid, when big blocks fall from the sky

I must admit that those two parts aren't the most entertaining, but they're unskippable.

wicked wrote:

it tooks damage that could be avoided, and donalds walks give some steps back in some stages. well this tas can be improved

In case you're referring to the damage in the second level: it actually boosts Donald up a bit to save time for him not to swim up. Whenever I had to walk back a bit it was necessary to avoid damage (which would have cost time). You're welcome to improve this run or give hints as to what could have been improved in detail. :)

Posted: 12/18/2008 1:54 AM

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alden

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OCH! Well, I liked watching this movie; thank you for making it. It does have some unavoidable slow bits, though personally they weren't long enough to detract much. Technically, I eyed a few things I might have questioned but I'm sure such obvious things would have been noticed by you as well... so while I'm sure it's "improvable" I personally think it's very publishable. Good job, and good to see you TASing now as well as encoding for us all ;)

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Posted: 1/26/2009 9:02 PM

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